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BBC Documentary: Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet

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Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, although Sun Ra himself always denied that Blount was his surname. He returned to Saturn in 1993 after creating a stunningly variegated and beautiful assemblage of earthly and interplanetary music, most notably with his fervently loyal Arkestra.

Sun Ra and his Arkestra were the subject of a few documentary films, notably Robert Mugge's 'A Joyful Noise' (1980), which interspersed performances and rehearsals with Sun Ra's commentary on various subjects ranging from today's youth to his own place in the cosmos.

Today's documentary, Don Letts' 'Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet' from 2005, reuses some of Mugge's material and includes some additional interviews.

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  • Fuck the ghetto, think about space.

  • SUNtRAvellers get hip to this shit, ride the lightbeams of the 73rd cosmos quasi-strobing all five liquid dimensions back through time and space to the very beginnings of all that is and all that wasn't.Skating the icering headdress of goddess Jupiter we become one with womb of the galactic embrya giving birth to naked purple universes beating quantum star-rhythms unlocking the interplanetary key Codex deciphering and uncoupling it from the far reaches of space's corridors. And yes, I'm high. 

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  • 48:31 - "and also an incredible sense of humor,HAheHAheHA"

  • @bluenotejazz Me too.

  • @George Clinton, I guess this is the Mother Ship Correction !?? I see where you got it from but its all good.

  • un messia era

  • era un angelo

  • sun ra era un genio assoluto del bene

  • I'm aboard!Let's go!

  • @cheeseydick69 where pathways meet,, off of lanquidity

  • anyone know the track at 21:30

  • 00:45, shades of "The Mothership" w/ "The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein". Many should thank this man(?) or being for his musical vision.

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